Hai Ah Nam has been a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with the Scientific Computing Group in the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Division since 2008.

Hai Ah's research activity focuses on theoretical low-energy nuclear physics, many-body methods, and high performance computing. Prior to joining ORNL in 2008, Hai Ah worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in conjunction with her doctoral work where she studied the structure of atomic nuclei using the ab initio no-core shell model.

Her current work involves developing and using several theoretical many-body nuclear methods, including coupled-cluster, quantum monte carlo, no-core shell model, and density functional theory to perform frontier scientific calculations on the leadership class supercomputers at ORNL. Current projects include scaling the nuclear coupled-cluster m-scheme approach for use on emerging computing platforms. Hai Ah received her PhD in Computational Science from the joint doctoral program at San Diego State University and Claremont Graduate University in 2010.

Hai Ah enjoys talking about herself in third person.